Mason Bleakley

Principal at Icehouse Ventures | Forbes 30 Under 30

📍 New Zealand🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2025
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Investor & Board Observer
Nov 2025
Number 8 bio is developing innovative solutions capable of reducing ruminant methane emissions, saving money for our farmers, and saving our climate.
Investor & Board Observer
May 2025
Investor & Board Observer
May 2025
Sigmabench: the real-world benchmark for coding agents. Model-only benchmarks dont reflect real-world engineering environments. We measure coding agent performance on pull requests spanning many languages, architectures and repository sizes. Real-world agent performance varies widely between projects. Therefore, there is no universal “best agent.” There is only the best agent for your codebase. Sigmabench provides trusted, neutral evaluations of: - Open source projects to produce our publicly available leaderboard - Private evaluations for engineering teams to determine the best coding agents for their codebases - Private evaluations for vendors creating and optimizing coding agents Our mission is to equip our industry with a reliable way to evaluate, compare, and select the best coding agents for real-world software development, enabling companies to make transparent, evidence-backed decisions tailored to their unique environments.
Investor & Board Observer
Aug 2024
We help FMCG brands understand the “who”, “what” and the “why” behind consumer purchases. By understanding motivations before the grocery shop, and how products are used after purchase, marketers can finally understand their full shopper journey.
Investor & Board Observer
Aug 2023
Reinforced by Nature.
Board Observer
Aug 2020
Conversational cartoons in a virtual world that help kids speak English with confidence!
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2025
Investor & Board Observer
Nov 2025
Number 8 bio is developing innovative solutions capable of reducing ruminant methane emissions, saving money for our farmers, and saving our climate.
Investor & Board Observer
May 2025
Investor & Board Observer
May 2025
Sigmabench: the real-world benchmark for coding agents. Model-only benchmarks dont reflect real-world engineering environments. We measure coding agent performance on pull requests spanning many languages, architectures and repository sizes. Real-world agent performance varies widely between projects. Therefore, there is no universal “best agent.” There is only the best agent for your codebase. Sigmabench provides trusted, neutral evaluations of: - Open source projects to produce our publicly available leaderboard - Private evaluations for engineering teams to determine the best coding agents for their codebases - Private evaluations for vendors creating and optimizing coding agents Our mission is to equip our industry with a reliable way to evaluate, compare, and select the best coding agents for real-world software development, enabling companies to make transparent, evidence-backed decisions tailored to their unique environments.
2024
Investor & Board Observer
Aug 2024
We help FMCG brands understand the “who”, “what” and the “why” behind consumer purchases. By understanding motivations before the grocery shop, and how products are used after purchase, marketers can finally understand their full shopper journey.
2023
Investor & Board Observer
Aug 2023
Reinforced by Nature.
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